(10-22-2018, 07:19 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Does Trump have any Idealist traits? I don't think so. His bully-style masculinity, hedonism and lack of interest in moral or spiritual issues seems Reactive to me. He is sort of Xer born too early. Actual boomers seem to despise him, while he is more popular among Xers.
Vladimir Putin and the autocrat of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko have very similar traits despite having been born in the early 1950s.
Trump is definitely a Prophet, he is very much like Mussolini (1883) another Idealist from the European generation of 98' (Euro Missionaries, with their last cohort being around 1886-1887). I would argue to his supporters he is their Grey Champion, which explains a lot of the attitudes they exhibit.
My Boomer mother and best her friend aren't spiritual at the least, however they are still very idealistic and see themselves as being very principled. Myself as a quite late wave Nomad is much more pragmatic and realistic.